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In Situ Characterization of Deformation Twinning in Magnesium During Cyclic Loading via Electron Backscatter Diffraction

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An approach for identifying deformation twinning and twin variants from electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) data collected at multiple load steps during in situ cyclic loading of a Mg-4Al alloy is introduced. After initial clean up by OIM AnalysisTM software, the EBSD maps of different load steps were spatially transformed and aligned, compared, and modified to have a consistent grain definition throughout all load steps. For each grain, the parent orientation at different load steps was determined with the EBSD data at the undeformed load step as reference, and the twins were identified by comparing the child grain orientation with each possible twin variant orientation of the parent grain. Special attention was paid to the calculation of crystallographically equivalent orientations and grain average orientation, which is essential for making the twin variant identification consistent throughout all load steps. The twin identification methodology was used to visualize the twin evolution history during cyclic loading, including investigation of the behavior of persistent twins.

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Data Availability

The experimental data supporting this publication are available on the Materials Commons at http://doi.org/10.13011/m3-me1a-6q83.

Code Availability

PRISMS-TwinID, is a MATLAB code for characterizing twins and twin variants from in-situ EBSD data. It can be downloaded at Github https://github.com/prisms-center/prisms-toolbox/tree/master/PRISMS-TwinID.

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This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering under Award #DE-SC0008637 as part of the Center for PRedictive Integrated Structural Materials Science (PRISMS) at the University of Michigan.

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Chen, Z., Torbet, C. & Allison, J. In Situ Characterization of Deformation Twinning in Magnesium During Cyclic Loading via Electron Backscatter Diffraction. JOM 74, 2577–2591 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-022-05335-8

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